AUGUST STAFF DEVELOPMENT August 14 - August 22, 2014
Workshop Descriptions Differentiated Instruction Session Accommodation Vs. Modifications
Session Bye, Bye STAAR M. . . Now What?
Description: Accommodations allow students with disabilities to pursue a regular course of study but modifications can be used to describe a change in the curriculum. We will also discuss a little bit about Differentiated Instruction. Differentiated Instruction (tiered lessons) makes it possible to maximize learning for ALL students. Some strategies for Differentiated Instruction might be group lessons, group discussion, task cards, and lessons via technology.
Description: Wondering what to do now that STAAR M is gone? Find out how to prepare students to be successful in your classroom and on the test. This workshop will focus on strategies to help students with disabilities access the breadth and depth of the curriculum needed for success.
Session Creating an environment for Special Education Students to strive in the General Education Classroom
Session Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers Description: Enrich the learning for readers in upper elementary, middle, and high school through the use of comprehension strategies put in place by literacy specialist and author Cris Tovani. Teaching tips and ideas that benefit struggling readers, as well as reproducible materials that can be used in the classroom will be given in this workshop.
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Description: Through a variety of teaching models, general and special educators will capitalize upon each other’s strengths to help all students achieve academic successes in an inclusive classroom. Strategies offered to share in all classroom inclusion dynamics-from planning to instruction, accommodations, accountability, assessments and positive behavior strategies.
Workshop Descriptions Differentiated Instruction Session Implementing Centers (Secondary)
Session Intervention Strategies that work for Tier 2 Reading Instruction (3-5)
Description: In this workshop, secondary teachers will learn the amazing benefits that come with using stations within the classroom. Teachers will leave with tips on how to create meaningful centers along with: management, appropriateness, and creativeness. We will discuss any and all misconceptions that teachers may have about using centers in the secondary class and hopefully overcome any fears with the assertiveness that will be presented.
Description: Learn research-based strategies for developing fluency and comprehension that will motivate your learners and ensure you provide effective instruction and practice. We will examine which specific intervention strategies work best and how to organize the intervention time to maximize effectiveness. You will leave with Tier 2 lesson plan format and intervention tools you can use right away!
Session Intervention Strategies that work for Tier 2 Reading Instruction (612 ELAR)
Session Intervention Strategies that work for Tier 2 Reading Instruction (K-2) Description: Learn research-based strategies for developing decoding and comprehension skills that will motivate your learners and ensure you provide effective instruction and practice. We will examine which specific intervention strategies work best and how to organize the intervention block to maximize effectiveness. You will leave with Tier 2 lesson plan format and interventions tools you can use right away !
Description: Learn research-based strategies for developing fluency and comprehension that will motivate your learners and ensure you provide effective instruction and practice. We will examine which specific intervention strategies work best and how to organize the intervention time to maximize effectiveness. You will leave with Tier 2 lesson plan format and intervention tools you can use right away! *14 *
Workshop Descriptions Differentiated Instruction Session Intervention Strategies that work for Tier 2 Math Instruction (6-12)
Session Positive Behavior Support in the Classroom
Description: Learn research-based strategies for developing conceptual understanding and fluency in mathematical operations and problem solving that will motivate your learners and ensure you provide effective instruction and practice. We will examine which specific intervention strategies work best and how to organize the intervention time to maximize effectiveness. You will leave with Tier 2 lesson plan format and interventions tools you can use right away!
Description: An interactive, hands-on workshop on positive behavior support in the PK-5 classroom. Walk away with a set of clear classroom expectations that set your students up for success, ideas for positive Recognition and Reinforcement of desired behaviors, and strategies to address challenging student behaviors. Come prepared to learn from one another and swap effective behavior approaches in the classroom.
Session Sensational Centers for K-2 Description: Are you in need of fresh ideas during stations? Well if you said yes, this is the workshop for you. This workshop will cover different ways to implement learning stations during guided reading. You will walk out with station ideas and forms, how to manage stations and instill reading and writing in your student during literacy stations.
Session Writing Strategies (Elementary) Description: Writer’s Workshop is a writing technique which can build student’s fluency in writing through continuous, repeated exposure to the process of writing. During this training you will understand the process of implementing writer’s workshop in a PK5 elementary setting. The goal is to help build students with confidence and fluency in writing skills that are necessary for life-long learning.
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Workshop Descriptions Personal Development Session Creating a College Going Culture Description: Eye opening statistics reveal the importance of creating a college going culture. Information on how FISD campuses are doing this and ideas for new activities will be shared.
Session Developing Character in Elementary Students Description: We will discuss the following in the workshop: 1. Why teach character education? The research behind the scenes.
2. How to teach character ed within the curriculum– using books, games, class discussion 3. How developing character can effect a child’s self-esteem? 4. How developing character can grow leaders within classrooms.
Session Embracing Student Strengths
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Description: We will take an in depth look at student strengths and how to maximize learning by embracing each child’s strengths. Participants will learn ways to incorporate strengths to help students problem solve day to day issues. Teachers will learn strategies to support cooperative grouping and how to supply strengths when recognizing and reinforcing in classrooms.
How character education promotes teamwork and teaches about goal setting. Session Hope, Well-Being, Engagement Description: How is FISD improving, Hope, Engagement, and Wellbeing in our students? Learn about best practices using and implementing the Gallup Student Poll. This workshop will equip you with the knowledge and skills to help you make sense of your Gallup Student Poll data. In this workshop you will learn to teach students how to set goals, prioritize action items, and enhance their agency thinking. You will leave with a plan of action to boost student well-being in your classroom.
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Workshop Descriptions Personal Development Session Teach With Your Strengths Description: What do great teachers do differently? This workshop will explain how teaching styles and approaches may differ, but all great teachers make the most of their natural talents. In this workshop, you will gain insight into some unorthodox teaching methods that great teachers use. We will share ideas for a better, authentic way to reach and engage children in learning.
Session That Crucial Conversation (w/ Colleagues Parents) Description: This session will identify: What makes a conversation crucial? When is it necessary to have a crucial conversation? Participants will role play a crucial conversation.
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Workshop Descriptions Continuous Staff Learning Session Changes on the Horizon
Session Close Reading in Primary
Description: The educational landscape changes as each legislative session convenes. This session will give updates regarding recent changes and how they affect staff and students. Examples: HB5, School Finance, TRS, etc. . . .
Description: Primary teachers will be introduced to close reading in the balanced literacy classroom. Participants will gain information to help students enhance comprehension by applying close reading strategies to texts.
Session CWT Framework Description: This session will review the classroom walkthrough framework and what administrators look for during the walkthrough. Each section of the data collection tool will be reviewed.
Session Interactive Note-booking in the Classroom Description: These hands-on sessions will demonstrate how notebooks may be used: as an Interactive communication tool; as a portfolio; to build visual literacy skills; as a study guide; and as an organizing strategy for thought processes and materials. Crosscurricular and grade-range appropriate examples will be shared in each session.
Session HB 5 Graduation Plan Description : The 83rd Texas Legislature recently passed House Bill 5 which created new high school graduation plans, the Foundation High School Program (FHSP) and the Distinguished Level of Achievement Plan. Both graduation plans provide students flexibility in pursuing high school courses that will meet their college and career needs. Current high school students (graduating classes of 2015, 2016, and 2017) have the option to adopt the new HB5 grad plan or continue with the 4x4 graduation plan. Come here the ins and outs of new graduation plans.
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Workshop Descriptions Continuous Staff Learning Session Multisensory Literacy Instruction (Elementary)
Session Process Menus Description: Process based instruction allows us to teach for transfer. These are the tools to know and learn ways to show to allow students to access the content.
Description: Learn how to make literacy instruction fun and engaging for all types of learners at the Elementary level.
Session Radiant Rubrics Description: How to implement student friendly writing rubrics (K-5) to express clear and consistent writing expectations in daily Writer’s Workshop Explore. Various ways to use rubrics to help students evaluate their own writing.
Session Write! Write! Get to Work! Description: Tired of struggling to get your students to complete writing tasks? Learn how to grow your students as writers with effective writing strategies through all stages of the process: brainstorming, pre-writing, drafting. Editing and revision, and final product. Make classroom writing assignments more meaningful and enjoyable for your students—- and you !
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Workshop Descriptions Engaging Instruction Session Be a Master of the 5 Description: Want your students to perform better, enjoy class, quite wasting time, and demonstrate mastery of your content? Then become a master yourself and teach so students can’t help but learn. This session will focus on the targeted use of the 5 practices outlined in the Fundamental Five highlighting for teachers how it is possible to really make it all happen in less than 50 minutes. The session will review each practice and illustrate why research says teachers that want the best results can’t afford to NOT implement these practices. Want the best? Then take on the challenge to use the best and be the best?
Session Framing the Lesson in the K-2 Classroom Description: How to write “I will” and “We will” statements in the early elementary classroom.
Session Critical Writing (Secondary) Description: Critical Writing at the secondary level is going to look at SE’s ??? Curriculum and different ways to incorporate critical writing into your classroom on a daily basis. Session Engaging Students with Socratic Seminar Description: Do you want to bring more discussion in your classroom? Do you want more high level thinking from all your students? If you said yes to these questions then Socratic Seminar is for you ! In this session, teachers will be introduced to the methods and process for bringing Socratic Seminar into your classroom. Teachers will receive a short introduction of the history and benefits of Socratic Seminar and how it increases the level of learning and engagement in the classroom. Teachers will also participate in a Socratic Seminar the last half of the session so they feel comfortable to take this strategy into their own classrooms. Handouts and resources from this workshop will be available in electronic format for teachers to use in their own classrooms.
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Workshop Descriptions Engaging Instruction Session Framing the Lesson
Session Increasing Student Rigor through Critical Writing (Elementary)
Description: Lesson Framing– Learn how to be deliberate and effective! “ Oh, the things we will learn today”, and “Oh, the ways you will show me that you learned it”- Dr. Seuss. Without fully understanding how to frame your lesson, you will not have a high functioning classroom. Be proactive about the expectations your set up for yourself AND your students.
Description: Understanding the power and process of critical writing and using critical writing as a source of formative assessment where the teacher can gauge and plan for his/ her instruction.
Session Introduction to Active Inspire, Active Expressions, and Promethean Board Description: The purpose of this workshop is to show teachers that are interested in using the Promethean Board and Active Inspire software in their classroom how to connect the computer to the Promethean Board and the basics of using the Active Inspire Software from opening, creating and modifying Flipcharts. Attendees will also be introduced to the Active Expression Polling Devices. This workshop is open to both new teachers as well as more veteran teachers that would like to attend.
Session Social Studies Description: The Social Studies workshop will engage in instructional strategies and activities that are effective in the social studies classrooms. We will examine how to to increase student rigor by using primary source documents in the classroom. We will also focus on incorporating the processing standards into everyday instruction. This will also be a time for social studies teachers at all grade levels to talk with one another to share ideas and discuss what is needed from each other in order to maximize student success.
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Workshop Descriptions Engaging Instruction Session Yakity Yak. Please Talk Back Description: Frequent Small Group Purposeful Talk-Are your students tracking time or staving off boredom? Do you want your students to take ownership of the learning? Using the strategies of Frequent, Small-Group, Purposeful Talk About the Learning makes a significant positive impact on student retention. This is a new spin on an old tool that will change your classroom and drive up student achievement. The use of purposeful, planned, and focused micro discussions, lasting between 30 seconds and 3 minutes, is the key. Don’t miss this opportunity to master the skills to increase rigor and student performance at the same time!
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Workshop Descriptions Data Driven Instruction Session How do you know your students are learning?
Session How to make Performance Indicators perform for you
Description: Dive into the world of common formative assessments and learn to purposefully check for understanding on key concepts. Tired of just using exit tickets? Learn several methods like Whip Around and One-Minute Sentence to quickly assess student mastery. In this workshop, we will focus on strategies for determining student learning, analyzing the results, and quickly clearing up misconceptions with kids. Leave with best practices that can simply integrate into your daily lessons.
Description: Questions that will be answered in this workshop: How can I get my students to become successful in the mastery of my subject’s performance indicators? How do I teach with my performance indicators in my mind? How do I prepare my students for the rigor of performance indicators? How can I use differentiation to maximize my student’s success of performance indicators? This workshop is designed to up the level of academia of your content and teach students to apply the knowledge and skills your have crafted with them in a rigorous and authentic way. You will leave this workshop ready to take on the performance indicator challenge!!!
Session How to Promote Progress in your classroom Description: Think your scores don’t tell the true story about your kids? Create a classroom that champions progress over performance. Learn how to help kids set learning goals and celebrate growth as they take ownership of the learning. Leave with several ideas that can be easily integrated into your classroom.
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Workshop Descriptions Data Driven Instruction Session Response to Intervention (Secondary)
Session Using Data to take Action (Elementary)
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Description: Using assessment data to provide specific intervention based on student needs.
The FHS Chemistry team has shown tremendous success with implementing an RTI program that fits within the school day. Their system is easily adaptable to any team with similar schedules, but was created to address the need for remediation in a HS Science setting. Their PLC addresses the four questions at the heart of PLCs through rotations and research based practices. Participants will leave with a plan to implement RTI at the secondary level.
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Workshop Descriptions Other Session Digital Learning– Using the Digital Database You Already Have! (Elementary)
Session Digital Learning– Using the Digital Database You Already Have ! (Secondary)
Description: Discover how to best utilize your library’s databases to help meet the growing needs of today’s digital learners. Come discover ways to navigate and share the many resources you already have and visually rich multimedia lessons and e-books. These span all curriculum areas and reading levels and can be used to enhance classroom learning and engage students in utilizing digital information.
Description: Learning to manage information is a critical skill for the 21st century learner. Empower your students with the skills needed to locate, evaluate, and manage digital information. Discover how to best utilize your library’s database to help meet the growing needs of today’s digital learners. Come and discover ways to navigate the many resources you already have available to you to help your students become information literate and achieve academic success.
Session Drugs, Dares and Other Dangerous Teen Trends Description: Do you really know the latest trends, dares and drugs teen are exposed to? This session is designed to increase drug and alcohol awareness for all members of the school community. Attendees will learn the latest teen trends and those on alcohol and other drugs. You will be amazed to see the different ways teens are hiding drugs for use and the various apps creating buzz in your schools. We guarantee you’ll learn something new.
Session I’m More Than Just Your Student Description: Every year a new set of students comes into our classrooms, but what do we really know? We know their name, we know their STAAR scores and we know if they are a trouble maker or not. But there is so much more to know. We make lesson plans, we disaggregate data, we remediate, but sometimes we miss the bigger picture. Sometimes what that one student needs to be successful is to truly know that someone believes in them. In this session we will discuss the importance of “THE RELATIONSHIP” between teachers and their students, and how this sometimes means more chance at success than anything in the TEKS. * 25 *
Workshop Descriptions Other Session Making a Difference, one child at a time
Session Inclusion 101 Description: Least restrictive environment is identified in the U.S. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act as one of the six principles that govern the education of students with disabilities and other special needs. By law, schools are required to provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment that is appropriate to the individual student's needs. “Least restrictive environment" (LRE) means that a student who has a disability should have the opportunity to be educated with non-disabled peers, to the greatest extent appropriate. In this session you will learn best practices for the Floresville ISD Inclusion model and answers to questions such as: · What is the purpose of Inclusion? Why is it important? · What are the FISD goals for inclusion? · What are the Roles & Responsibilities of the general education teacher and the special education teacher?
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Description: The workshop will cover dealing with the Autistic child both from the parent perspective and the perspective of the classroom teacher.
Session Relieving Stress Description: We live in a culture of stress with the physical and mental results. This discussion will include understanding our stressors, how they affect us, and strategies we might use to help us cope and reduce our stress levels.
Workshop Descriptions Other Session Technology Boot Camp
Session Web Page
Description: This class is intended for beginner to intermediate users. We will cover a bit of everything about the technology available to you at FISD. Equipment & Classrooms, Shares & Network, Phone System, and Getting Help.
Description: Attendees will learn how to update their web page, including adding classes, homework, pictures, links and any other information they would like to share with students and parents.
Session Working with Outlook Description: This class is intended for users who want to get the most out of Outlook 2013, Outlook Web Access, and Exchange. Email, contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, and mobile access. How can these tools be used to manage your time and workload? We’ll show you !
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